Tag Archives: Leon Trotsky

Intelligence Matters

Posted on August 1, 2015 by leslie

Intelligence Matters Charmian Brinson & Richard Dove, A Matter of Intelligence: MI5 and the Surveillance of Anti-Nazi Refugees 1933-50 (2014) Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2015, Notes, Name Index, pp. 239, ISBN 978 0 7190 9079 0. Reviewed by Dr Frank … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, QR Home | Tagged Charmian Brinson & Richard Dove, Eric Hobsbawm, Frank Ellis, Katyn Forest Massacre, Klaus Fuchs, Leon Trotsky, MI5 | Leave a comment

Left in the Lurch

Posted on October 25, 2013 by leslie

Left in the Lurch LESLIE JONES reviews a resume of Weimar political culture Weimar Thought: a Contested Legacy, eds. Peter E Gordon & John P McCormick, Princeton University Press, Princeton & Oxford, 2013 Provocative historian Jan T Gross points out … Continue reading →

Posted in QR Home | Tagged Adolf Hitler, Eduard Bernstein, Leon Trotsky, Nazis, Rosa Luxemburg, Weimar Republic | Leave a comment

Why the Left is sometimes Right

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Derek Turner

Why the Left is sometimes Right FERGUS DOWNIE examines the crossovers between supposed ideological enemies In Arthur Koestler’s wartime novel Arrival and Departure, there is a striking scene where the author introduces a prototypically modern Nazi diplomat, who expounds on the intrinsically … Continue reading →